books

Cindy Sherman

The principle theme in Cindy Sherman’s oeuvre is the staging of female role models. The American artist relies on stereotypes inscribed on our collective visual memory in a world saturated with media...

Louise Bourgeois: I Have Been to Hell and Back

The extensive monograph provides an overview of the overall artistic development of Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) and presents a large number of works, including some that have never before been published.

Adventures of the Black Square

Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015

Exploring how the universal visual language of geometric abstraction relates to society and politics, Adventures of the Black Square traces a century of abstract art from 1915 to the present day, encompassing sculpture, film, photography, and painting.

Oskar Schlemmer: Visions of a New World

Oskar Schlemmer (1888–1943) was one of the most versatile all-rounders of the last century and as unusual as a painter as he was as a sculptor, draughtsman, graphic artist, stage designer, wall designer, creator of epochal dance projects and author. His vision was the “new” man living in functional architecture, thinking clearly and acting clearly in the modern age which would never again sink into the chaos of war.

On Kawara - Silence

Because of his recourse to language, photography and systems of information, On Kawara is often described as a key figure in the history of Conceptual art. Yet his work stands apart in its devotion to painting and its existential reach. On Kawara - Silence is published in conjunction with a major exhibition of Kawara's post-1964 work at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Rinus Van de Velde

First monography on Belgian artist Rinus Van de Velde (1983), coming man into the internationals art scene. He had exhibitions in Ghent, Antwerp, Berlin, Malaga and Los Angeles, and this book shows his work from the past five years.

A Man Walks into a Bar: Jokes & Postcards

A man walks into a bar... ? the unmistakable prelude to a joke. This remarkable collection of artist's postcards of the same name could not have a more fitting title. Drawn, written, or stuck together, postcards featuring the contributing artists' favourite jokes in their own language make up the unique content of this amusing small volume.

Jan Vanriet: Vanity. Paintings 2012-2014

Women's Work is Never Done: An Anthology

In this impressive anthology, internationally acclaimed curator and director Catherine de Zegher compiles 25 influential essays on women artists from the numerous books she has written and edited throughout her career.

Imi Knoebel: Works 1966-2014

Bare Life: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and Others

London Artists Working from Life 1950-80

Between 1950 and 1980, a pioneering group of painters, began pursuing new directions in figurative art, investing representations of the human body with unprecedented expressiveness and depth and seeking to capture more accurately the truth of human existence...

Azimuth: Continuity and Newness

The story of a seminal experience on the international art scene in the 1960s. In the postwar period characterized by wide-ranging experimentation involving major artists and international exchanges, Azimut/h played a key cultural and expressive role...

Richard Serra

This publication accompanies Richard Serra’s pair of exhibitions in Qatar in 2014, at the QMA Gallery at Katara and the ALRIWAQ DOHA exhibition space, as well as his permanent installations 7 and East-West/ West-East, both commissioned by the Qatar Museums Authority.

Sigurdur Gudmundsson. Dancing Horizon 1970–1982

Dancing Horizon 1970–1982 is a comprehensive collection of the photographic work of Icelandic artist Sigurdur Gudmundsson (born 1942), the "Nordic father of Conceptual photography," focusing on a critical period in his development.

Deitch Projects: Live the Art

This extraordinary three-dimensional package of LIVE THE ART, is a suitable homage to Jeffrey Deitch’s legendary stature and influence as an art dealer and producer of memorable installations and art happenings that robustly transcended the idea of a mere “exhibition. More than four years in the making, and divided into chapters devoted to each year between 1996 and 2010.

Julian Schnabel: Draw a Family

Julian Schnabel

Over the span of his 40-year career, Julian Schnabel has moved effortlessly across mediums, working in film, design and the fine art world. Draw a Family returns our focus to Schnabel's seminal career as a painter, reminding us that this is the field in which he has continuously thrived since the 1970s.

Darren Almond: Fullmoon

Gideon Kiefer

Beautiful monography on the work of Belgian artist Gideon Kiefer (1970). Surreal images, based on photographs or scenes from reality, form the components of his poetic, but strange paintings and drawings.